When the Houston Dynamo job opened back in October 2014, Orlando City coach Adrian Heath couldn't help but to think of an old friend he had gotten to know during their playing days in England in the 1990s.
"Is that something Owen would be interested in?...

SEATTLE Barely three months passed from the time the Seattle Sounders trudged off the CenturyLink Field turf in disappointment at the end of last November and when they came back out of that tunnel Sunday for their 2015 opener against the New England...

Continuing its push into international soccer, Under Armour has signed 21-year-old Dutch player Memphis Depay, considered a rising star.
A member of the Netherlands national team, Depay last summer became the youngest-ever Dutch player to score a World...

For many years, soccer fans in the United States have kept track of so-called, "American Exports," the group of players who plied their trade on the other side of the Atlantic.
The American players overseas were often seen as the top talents this country had produced. The likes of Clint Dempsey, Jozy Altidore, Brek Shea, Sacha Kljestan, Michael Bradley and Mix Diskerud were on the list, their exploits with teams in England, Belgium, Italy and Norway tracked, recorded and lauded.
Now that list of...

Brek Shea reintroduced himself to Jurgen Klinsmann with a blistering goal.
The Orlando City signing scored with a stinging left-footed shot to the far post in the sixth minute of the U.S. men’s national team’s 3-2 loss to Chile on Wednesday evening.
Shea, who started at left wing-back, raced up the left side and got on the end of a splendid floated ball from Matt Besler to give the U.S. an early 1-0 lead. (See the goal here.) Chile equalized just four minutes after Shea’s goal on a...

Jozy Altidore is coming home, reaching agreement on a deal that will return him to Major League Soccer with Toronto FC.
And U.S. national team Coach Juergen Klinsmann isn't sure how he feels about that.
Altidore, the fifth-leading scorer in U.S. Soccer history, struggled mightily in two mostly forgettable seasons with Sunderland of the English Premier League, scoring just once in 39 EPL games. He had started just two of 21 league matches this season.
Klinsmann immediately reached out to Altidore,...

Juergen Klinsmann measures time with a stopwatch, not a calendar.
Even though the U.S. won't begin Olympic qualifying for another 14 months and the next World Cup for 3 1/2 years, Klinsmann believes there's no time to waste on either front.
And that, as much as anything, explains the eclectic 29-man roster the national team coach summoned to StubHub Center for U.S. Soccer's winter training camp.
Eight of the call-ups played in last summer's World Cup — but 15 others have never made an...

Orlando City midfielder Brek Shea was officially called into January camp with the U.S. national team.
The 28-man roster consists mostly of MLS players, though U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann did call in some young prospects who play in Mexico and Europe. The camp will run Jan. 12-Feb. 8, beginning in California and including friendlies in Chile and against Panama in Carson, Calif.
“The prize in 2015 for the senior National Team is the Gold Cup, and this camp will give a lot of our players a...

Coach Juergen Klinsmann has called up a primarily young and domestically based roster for the U.S. national soccer team's first training camp of the new year, which is set to begin Monday at StubHub Center.
Nineteen of the 28 players summoned are less than 25 years old, and 21 of them are on Major League Soccer rosters, including the Galaxy's Gyasi Zardes and Oscar Sorto.
The call-up to the national team is the first for both players.
Though the roster also includes seven members of last year's...